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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1778-1] New mahara packages fix cross-site scripting

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Wed Apr 22 19:00:19 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1778-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde April 22nd, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : mahara
    Vulnerability : insufficient input sanitization
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2009-0664


    It was discovered that mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and
    resume builder, is prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks because
    of missing input sanitization of the introduction text field in user
    profiles and any text field in a user view.


    The oldstable distribution (etch) does not contain mahara.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.0.4-4+lenny2.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.1.3-1.


    We recommend that you upgrade your mahara packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1303 934fdf17abf7221e30fe68c925377126
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 39307 3193a6e1483f1375430cc236230bc9cc

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara_1.0.4-4+lenny2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1637064 9fc42b011a826509edc1fccdb9bc149e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mahara/mahara-apache2_1.0.4-4+lenny2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7830 30c258196ccbdddc6c4f25e1534ba96e


    These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
    its next update.

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    For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
    For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
    Mailing list: [email protected]
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